PhpSpreadsheet VS Intervention Image

We have used a PHP Script to do this https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet

If I need the data to be well-formatted in Excel, directly from the export, then I use PhpSpreadsheet. Otherwise, I'll just write to a CSV file.

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I'm using PhpSpreadsheet to generate an Excel file. It works really well, but now I'd like to reopen the file it created downstream and assign every cell value in one specific column to a simple, flat array where, say, the 1 key of this array might be the name of the column and the values are the column's cell values? Or even just a simple array with only the values...?

For the library, there is PhpOffice

a full list of sizes is in this file, https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/blob/master/src/PhpSpreadsheet/Worksheet/PageSetup.php

You can use phpspreadsheet. It's the library that LaravelExcel relies on. Here's samples from their git repo: https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/blob/master/samples/Chart/33_Chart_create_pie.php

If still not confident you can still with other packages for images, such intervention https://github.com/Intervention/image

Not sure of any package that handles that specific use case perse. But if you're thinking of showing a preview, and don't want to load the original file, take a look at an image handling library like intervention

Apple released a new image format called HEIC/HEIF, and it broke many apps that handle image processing. The PHP library Intervention Image caught up to it and added support for the new image format, but somehow, it isn't working at the time of this writing. So we had to come up with a solution.

Glide is actually built on top of Intervention so I'd start looking there. If Intervention has what you need but Glide doesn't, you can probably write your own custom manipulation.

The Intervention Image package is incredibly powerful, however it hasn't been updated since early November 2020 and has open PRs for PHP 8 support for several months, with no response from any collaborators.

If you use Composer I suggest this package: https://image.intervention.io/, it has a sleek API for cropping and resizing.

Intervention Image is a PHP image handling and manipulation library providing an easier and expressive way to create, edit, and compose images. The package includes ServiceProviders and Facades for easy Laravel integration.